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Organization wants to keep America fishing

Just in the past five years, a groundswell of anti-fishing sentiment in the United States has begun to build, and it has leaders in the sportfishing industry worried. Mike Nussman, president and CEO of the American Sportfishing Association, told a group of media representatives at a breakfast meeting at the ICAST show in Orlando today that he always felt secure that public opinion and governmental support would protect recreational fishing. Not anymore.